setup.py

from ez_setup import use_setuptools
use_setuptools()
from setuptools import setup, find_packages
from distutils.command.build_py import build_py as _build_py
from setuptools.command.sdist import sdist as _sdist
import os
from os import path

v = open(path.join(path.dirname(__file__), 'VERSION'))
VERSION = v.readline().strip()
v.close()

class build_py(_build_py):
    def run(self):
        init = path.join(self.build_lib, 'git', '__init__.py')
        if path.exists(init):
            os.unlink(init)
        _build_py.run(self)
        _stamp_version(init)
        self.byte_compile([init])

class sdist(_sdist):
    def make_release_tree (self, base_dir, files):
        _sdist.make_release_tree(self, base_dir, files)
        orig = path.join('lib', 'git', '__init__.py')
        assert path.exists(orig)
        dest = path.join(base_dir, orig)
        if hasattr(os, 'link') and path.exists(dest):
            os.unlink(dest)
        self.copy_file(orig, dest)
        _stamp_version(dest)

def _stamp_version(filename):
    found, out = False, []
    f = open(filename, 'r')
    for line in f:
        if '__version__ =' in line:
            line = line.replace("'git'", "'%s'" % VERSION)
            found = True
        out.append(line)
    f.close()

    if found:
        f = open(filename, 'w')
        f.writelines(out)
        f.close()


setup(name = "GitPython",
      cmdclass={'build_py': build_py, 'sdist': sdist},
      version = VERSION,
      description = "Python Git Library",
      author = "Michael Trier",
      author_email = "mtrier@gmail.com",
      url = "http://gitorious.org/projects/git-python/",
      packages = find_packages('lib'),
      package_dir = {'':'lib'},
      license = "BSD License",
      long_description = """\
GitPython is a python library used to interact with Git repositories.

GitPython provides object model access to your git repository. Once you have
created a repository object, you can traverse it to find parent commit(s),
trees, blobs, etc.

GitPython is a port of the grit library in Ruby created by 
Tom Preston-Werner and Chris Wanstrath.
""",
      classifiers = [
        "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
        "Intended Audience :: Developers",
        "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
        "Programming Language :: Python",
        "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
        ]
      )